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The IEEE 802.1 Standards

The IEEE 802.1 Standards. Tony Jeffree, 802.1 WG Chair tony@jeffree.co.uk. MENU. What is 802.1? The Bridging standards “Traditional” Bridging Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Data Center Bridging (DCB) The Security standards Where to find out more Backup slides. What is 802.1?.

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The IEEE 802.1 Standards

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  1. The IEEE 802.1 Standards Tony Jeffree, 802.1 WG Chair tony@jeffree.co.uk

  2. MENU • What is 802.1? • The Bridging standards • “Traditional” Bridging • Audio Video Bridging (AVB) • Data Center Bridging (DCB) • The Security standards • Where to find out more • Backup slides

  3. What is 802.1? • Keeper of the LAN architecture – IEEE Std 802 • Describes the 802 family of standards • Describes the LAN architecture • Defines some useful things, such as the LAN address format, the SNAP protocol, the “Playpen Ethertypes”, and the OID registration arcs • The “Higher Layer Interface” working group in 802 • Defines the Bridging and security “glue” that interconnects the LANs defined by the 802 MAC groups

  4. The 802 LAN Architecture OSI reference model End station End station Application (Higher Layers) (Higher Layers) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Presentation Session LLC sublayer Transport MAC Bridge Network MAC service user Link LLC LLC RELAY MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC serviceprovider MAC sublayer Physical Phy Phy Phy Phy Physical layer LAN LAN Medium

  5. 802.1Bridging standards: The core Bridging standards • Two base standards: 802.1D:2004 (MAC Bridging) and 802.1Q:2005 (VLAN Bridging), but 802.1D will be subsumed into 802.1Q in a future revision • Support for LAN reconfigurations in 50ms or less (“Rapid Spanning Tree”) • Cures the historical problem of slow reconfiguration times • Makes Bridged Ethernet competitive as a means of offering metro services • Support for up to 4094 VLANs over a single Spanning Tree (SST) or over multiple (up to 64) Spanning Tree instances (MST) • Provides options for load balancing • Allows choice of how VLANs map to Spanning Trees

  6. 802.1Bridging standards: Provider Bridging • 802.1ad:2005 Provider Bridging - supports metro-area “provider” bridged LANs that can (trivially) multiplex 4094 X 4094 distinct services • 802.1ah:2008 Provider Backbone Bridging • Adds a 24-bit I-SID giving ~16 million “service instance identifiers” • Adds a tunnelling protocol (external MAC addresses are local to the backbone) • 802.1aw:2009 Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering – supports the construction of “traffic engineered” backbone topologies, protection switching, etc. to serve the needs of large service providers. • 802.1aj:2010 Two-port MAC Relay • Simple 2-Port Bridge – no Spanning Tree support • Acts as a “demarc” device between service provider and service user • Can be used to translate between “true” Ethernet and emulated Ethernet services

  7. Provider Backbone Bridged LAN 802.1ah, 802.1aw Provider Backbone Bridged Network 802.1ad Provider Bridged Network Provider Bridged Network Provider Bridged Network 802.1aj

  8. 802.1Bridging standards: Management • 802.1ag:2007 Connectivity Fault Management and 802.1Qaw:2009 Management of Data Driven and Data Dependent Connectivity Faults • Fault-finding tools (continuity checks, loopback functions etc.) aimed at managing both service provider and service user networks • 802.1ap:2008 MIB definitions for VLAN Bridges – defines the set of MIBs required in order to support SNMP-style management of all of the Bridging technologies covered by 802.1Q and 802.1D • Configuration and statistics gathering tools

  9. Ongoing developments • P802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging • Intent is to provide optimal use of the available bandwidth in the network • Has caused a move away from distance-vector routing techniques to some variant of link state

  10. Why Shortest Path Bridging? • Rapid Spanning Tree confines traffic to a single Spanning Tree • Unused LANs, therefore wasted bandwidth • Multiple Spanning Trees splits traffic across Spanning Trees by VLAN • Better utilisation of bandwidth but still can be sub-optimal paths • Shortest Path Bridging allows connectivity trees to be created per source Bridge • A tree rooted at a Bridge defines the shortest path from that Bridge to any other Bridge

  11. AVB: Bridging optimized for A-V traffic • Audio-visual applications in home and studio environments generate a particular set of QoS requirements • The need to synchronize audio/video in several adjacent rooms/areas • The need to prioritize AV traffic to ensure that it stays within latency/jitter bounds • The need to minimize packet loss • Potentially an enormous market • Home AV applications • Studio/concert hall applications • Large venues e.g., theme parks • Three standards published, one currently under development: • 802.1AS:2011 – Time synchronization • 802.1Qat:2010 – Stream reservation protocol • 802.1Qav:2009 – Forwarding and queuing for time sensitive streams • P802.1BA – AVB Systems

  12. P802.1AS – Time Synchronization • A common notion of time is needed in order for distributed AV applications to synchronize • Lip synch between audio and video streams • Synch between different instruments in a band • Synch between speakers in adjacent rooms playing the same music • …etc. • AS protocol accurately measures the delay between adjacent network nodes, and distributes a common “master” time from an accurate clock • Resilient in the face of network reconfiguration • Based on IEEE Std 1588 with extensions to meet the particular needs of LANs

  13. P802.1Qat – Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) • Provides a means of reserving bandwidth for streams • Ensures that the path from the stream originator (Talker) to the stream destinations (Listeners) is not oversubscribed • Ensures that a Talker does not start to use network resources for a stream until those resources have been allocated to the stream • Deals with re-assignment of resources on network reconfiguration

  14. P802.1Qav – Forwarding and Queuing for Time Sensitive Streams • Defines a “Credit-based shaper” de-queuing algorithm for use in Bridges • Stream transmission possible only if credit is not exhausted • Credit is accumulated in proportion to the reserved bandwidth on the Bridge port • Has the effect of limiting the bandwidth that can be used for streaming to the amount reserved by SRP • Ensures that stream traffic takes priority over all other traffic • Ensures that the stream latency is bounded and can be calculated for a given configuration

  15. P802.1BA – AVB Systems • This defines a number of “profiles” for different components in the network • Bridges • “Talker” stations • “Listener” stations • Each profile selects options from the base standards (802.1Q, 802.1Qat, 802.1Qav, 802.1AS, 802.3, 802.11…etc) that are appropriate for the component • The standard may also define additional functions that don’t have a convenient home elsewhere • E.g., detection of unacceptable configurations

  16. DCB: Bridging optimized for the data center and virtualized systems • Data centre (“server farms”) and “backplane” use of Ethernet brings a new set of requirements for Bridging: • Very stringent requirements on latency and jitter • Active handling of congestion to avoid the impact of frame discard and retransmission • Result: drive to invent new Congestion Management mechanisms in LANs • Virtualization in end stations and servers bring further challenges • The need for simpler bridging and bridge port extension strategies that allow lightweight bridge implementations in virtualized systems and V-NICs • The need to provide discovery and configuration mechanisms to support the connectivity required among virtual stations

  17. DCB standard developments – 1: • P802.1Qau, Congestion Notification: • Defines a means of signalling congestion back to the source of congestion • Result is minimal discard rate • P802.1Qaz, Enhanced Transmission Selection: • Defines a means of bandwidth sharing among traffic classes

  18. DCB standard developments – 2: • P802.1Qbb, Priority-based flow control: • Extends the existing 802.3 Pause to operate on a per-priority basis. Also involves a minor change to the 802.3 MAC control frame under P802.3bd. • P802.1Qbg, Edge Virtual Bridging: • Extends the Bridging standards to support virtual machine developments within desktop and server systems • P802.1Qbh, Bridge Port Extension: • Allows a single Bridge Port to be extended within an attached station in order to provide individual communication channels for multiple virtual stations.

  19. The 802.1 Security standards: 1 • 802.1X:2010 Port based Network Access Control: • Defines a “Controlled Port” accessible only after EAP-based authentication, and an “Uncontrolled Port” accessible at any time • 2009 revision adds “key agreement” protocol • 802.1AE:2006 MAC Security: • Defines a means of securing data on an individual LAN segment • Integrated with the key agreement and controlled/uncontrolled Port functions in 802.1X • 802.1AR:2009 Secure Device Identity: • Defines unique per-device identifiers • Allows standard mechanisms to authenticate a device’s identity • Facilitates secure device provisioning

  20. Security architecture

  21. More information is available on IEEE 802.1 standards and activities here… http://www.ieee802.org/1/ Free PDF copies of IEEE 802 standards available from… http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/index.html …but only 6 months after publication

  22. Backup slides

  23. Summary of 802.1 Standards and Projects (1) - Bridging • Base Bridging standards (published): • IEEE Std 802.1D:2004, MAC Bridges • IEEE Std 802.1Q:2005, Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks • Amendments to IEEE Std 802.1Q:2005 (published): • IEEE Std 802.1ad:2005 – Provider Bridging • IEEE Std 802.1ag:2007, Connectivity Fault Management • IEEE Std 802.1ak:2007, Multiple Registration Protocol • IEEE Std 802.1Q:2005 Cor 1:2008 (bug fix for 802.1ak) • IEEE Std 802.1ah:2008, Backbone Provider Bridges • IEEE Std 802.1ap:2008, MIB definitions for VLAN Bridges • IEEE Std 802.1aj:2010, Two-port MAC Relay • IEEE Std 802.1Qay:2009, Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering • IEEE Std 802.1Qav:2009, Forwarding & Queuing for Time Sensitive Streams • IEEE Std 802.1Qau:2010, Congestion Notification • IEEE Std 802.1Qat:2010, Stream Reservation Protocol

  24. Summary of 802.1 Standards and Projects (2) - Bridging • Amendments to IEEE Std 802.1Q:2005 (active projects, with probable completion date): • P802.1aq, Shortest Path Bridging (Working Group ballot; Completion Dec 2011) • P802.1Qaz, Enhanced Transmission Selection. (Sponsor ballot; completion 2011) • P802.1Qbb, Per-priority flow control. (Task Group ballot ; completion 2011) • P802.1Qbc, Remote Customer Service Interface. (Sponsor ballot ; completion 2011) • P802.1Qbe, Multiple I-SID Registration Protocol. (Working Group ballot ; completion 2011) • P802.1Qbf, PBB-TE infrastructure protection. (Working Group ballot ; completion 2011)

  25. Summary of 802.1 Standards and Projects (3) - Security • Published standards: • IEEE Std 802.1X:2010, Port-based Network Access Control • IEEE Std 802.1AE:2006, MAC Security • IEEE Std 802.1AR:2009, Secure Device Identity

  26. Summary of 802.1 Standards and Projects (4) – The rest… • Published standards: • IEEE Std 802:2001, Overview and Architecture • IEEE Std 802a:2003, Ethertypes for Prototype and Vendor-Specific Protocol Development • IEEE Std 802b:2004 Registration of Object Identifiers • IEEE Std 802.1AS:2011, Time Synchronization • Active projects: • P802, Overview and Architecture (Revision project. Expected completion December 2011) • P802.1AC, MAC Service Definition (Expected completion December 2011)

  27. “C” and “S” tags in 802.1Q 16 bits 12 bits 3 bits Customer (C-) Tag: EtherType VID Priority C-Tagged Frame: DA/SA C-Tag User Data 16 bits 12 bits 3 bits Service (S-) Tag: EtherType VID Priority S/C-Tagged Frame: DA/SA S-Tag C-Tag User Data

  28. C2 C2 802.1D or 802.1Q C1 Service Tag added & removed here Provider Network 802.1ad C2 C1 Customer VLANs Service VLANs Customer Bridge Provider Bridge Simple provider network example

  29. Service Instance tags (I-Tags) in 802.1ah 16 bits 4 bits 4 bits 24 bits 96 bits I-Tag: Priority DA/SA EtherType Format I-SID From encapsulated frame I-Tagged Frame: DA/SA I-Tag User Data Addresses are local to the Backbone Network

  30. Bridge 3 Bridge 2 Bridge 1 Bridge 4 Bridge 5 Bridge 6 A Spanning Tree isn’t necessarily a Shortest Path Inactive LAN segment Active LAN segment

  31. Bridge 3 Bridge 2 Bridge 1 Bridge 4 Bridge 5 Bridge 6 Shortest Path Trees • P802.1aj Two-port MAC Relay • Simple 2-Port Bridge – no Spanning Tree support • Acts as a “demarc” device between service provider and service user • Can be used to translate between “true” Ethernet and emulated Ethernet services Inactive LAN segment Active LAN segment for tree rooted at Bridge 3 Active LAN segment for tree rooted at Bridge 6

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